Frederick Forsyth Quotes

It could well be argued that the continuing rights abuses of the present Iraqi regime, if it is allowed to survive, will prove most distressing. This is beyond any doubt. But the West has been required to witness terrible scenes in China, Russia, Vietnam, East Timor, Cambodia, and many other parts of the world. It is simply not possible for the United States to impose humanity on a worldwide scale unless it is prepared to enter into permanent global war. ~ Frederick Forsyth

The notion that the lobby at Langley is choked with the corpses of former agents gunned down by their own colleagues at the behest of genocidal directors on the top floor is amusing but wholly unreal. ~ Frederick Forsyth

The specific murderers of the SS therefore hide even today behind the collective guilt theory. ~ Frederick Forsyth

Oh, I will go back to Century House and start again. And go back each night to my small flat and listen to my music and eat my baked beans. And you will go back to Nikki, my friend, and hold her very tight, and write your books and forget all this. ~ Frederick Forsyth

Kuwait was always historically part of Iraq. Like Nehru invading Portuguese Goa. ~ Frederick Forsyth

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there was no such thing as collective guilt. But we Germans have been told for twenty years that we are all guilty. Do you believe that? ~ Frederick Forsyth

As ever with modern Britain, we are let down by a vast, over-manned, over-funded, hidebound, obstructive, box-ticking and incompetent bureaucracy. ~ Frederick Forsyth

In the 66 years that I have been alive, there has not been one hour, of one day, of one month, of one year, when there has not been a threat aimed at us. ~ Frederick Forsyth

I have spent twenty years trying to understand the look in her eyes. Was it love or hatred, contempt or pity, bewilderment or understanding? I shall never know. ~ Frederick Forsyth

The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship. ~ Frederick Forsyth

The man in gray decided to take the Glen Suite of diamonds at midnight. Provided they were still in the apartment safe and the occupants away. This he needed to know. So he watched and he waited. At half past seven he was rewarded. ~ Frederick Forsyth

The technique of beaming a ray on to window glass and reading from the vibrations the conversation going on inside had been used against the American embassy in Moscow in the Cold War and required the reconstruction of the entire building. ~ Frederick Forsyth

But the words did not come. They never do, when one needs them. ~ Frederick Forsyth

There is no collective guilt, ... guilt is individual, like salvation. [p.28] ~ Frederick Forsyth

He was one of the masters of the thriller and he really was one of the great signposts, because he took the spy thriller out of the gentility of the drawing room and into the back streets of Istanbul and where it all really happened, ... The Day of the Jackal. ~ Frederick Forsyth

It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad. ~ Frederick Forsyth

dispatcher, Alfredo Suarez, had to check the weather. ~ Frederick Forsyth

The British left intermittently erupts like a pustule upon the buttock of a rather good country. Seventy years ago it opposed mobilisation against Adolf Hitler and worshiped the other genocide, Josef Stalin. It has marched for Mao, Ho Chi Minh, Khrushchev, Brezhnev and Andropov. It has slobbered over Ceausescu and Mugabe. It has demonstrated against everything and everyone American for a century. ~ Frederick Forsyth

On Foreign Secretary Robin Cook: If a man cannot keep a measly affair secret, what is he doing in charge of the Intelligence Service? ~ Frederick Forsyth

...a woman of quite bovine stupidity and potato-like contours... ~ Frederick Forsyth

A journalist should never join the Establishment, no matter how tempting the blandishments. It is our job to hold power to account, not join it. In a world that increasingly obsesses over the gods of power, money and fame, a journalist and a writer must remain detached, like a bird on a rail, watching, noting, probing, commenting but never joining. In short, an outsider. ~ Frederick Forsyth

You must forgive them, my child. Forgiveness is a part of penitence. ~ Frederick Forsyth

The Jackal was perfectly aware that in 1963 General de Gaulle was not only the President of France; he was also the most closely and skilfully guarded figure in the Western world. To assassinate him, as was later proved, was considerably more difficult than to kill President John F. Kennedy of the United States. Although the English killer did not know it, French security experts who had through American courtesy been given an opportunity to study the precautions taken to guard the life of President Kennedy had returned somewhat disdainful of those precautions as exercised by the American Secret Service. The French experts rejection of the American methods was later justified when in November 1963 John Kennedy was killed in Dallas by a half-crazed and security-slack amateur while Charles de Gaulle lived on, to retire in peace and eventually to die in his own home. ~ Frederick Forsyth

There are several ways of making quick money but in the general list, writing a novel rates well below robbing a bank. ~ Frederick Forsyth

Almost all great fortunes are based upon one cracking good idea and the guts to go with it ~ Frederick Forsyth

A round of golf is the ideal antidote to stress. ~ Bruce Forsyth

The spirit longs for the world of light from which it came. That longing causes something to happen. It causes the being to grow into light. ~ Frederick Lenz

We're too insignificant and small to really be able to do anything, except cry, not unhappily, but an inner cry, a feeling of reaching to God: ~ Frederick Lenz

You must consider that there is opposition from other human beings and also non-physical forces that don't want you to succeed. ~ Frederick Lenz

Awareness is wakefulness. Wakefulness is consciousness. Consciousness is limitless awareness. ~ Frederick Lenz

You're thinking that you shouldn't have sex because you're celibate. So you just keep thinking about sex instead of enlightenment. ~ Frederick Lenz

We know we should be completely humble. We should stop thinking that we're very marvelous because we're not. We are interesting at best because we are a part of life. ~ Frederick Lenz

Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning. ~ Frederick William Faber

Despite of it all, the Negro remains ... cool, strong, imperturbable, and cheerful. ~ Frederick Douglass

You are asleep and have forgetten that you are dreaming. You mistakenly believe you are awake. ~ Frederick Lenz

By experience; by a sense of human frailty; by a perception of "the soul of goodness in things evil;" by a cheerful trust in human nature; by a strong sense of God's love; by long and disciplined realization of the atoning love of Christ; only thus can we get a free, manly, large, princely spirit of forgiveness. ~ Frederick William Robertson

Maybe the truth of it is that it's too good not to be true. ~ Frederick Buechner

I have sometimes thought that the mere hearing of those songs would do more to impress some minds with the horrible character of slavery, than the reading of whole volumes of philosophy on the subject could do.

I did not, when a slave, understand the deep meaning of those rude and apparently incoherent songs. I was myself within the circle; so that I neither saw nor heard as those without might see and hear. They told a tale of woe which was then altogether beyond my feeble comprehension; they were tones loud, long, and deep; they breathed the prayer and complaint of souls boiling over with bitterest anguish. Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains. The hearing of those wild notes always depressed my spirit, and filled me with ineffable sadness. I have frequently found myself in tears while hearing them. The mere recurrence to those songs, even now, afflicts me; and while I am writing these lines, an expression of feeling has already found its way down my cheek. To those songs I trace my first glimmering conception of the dehumanizing character of slavery. I can never get rid of that conception. Those songs still follow me, to deepen my hatred of slavery, and quicken my sympathies for my brethren in bonds. If any one wishes to be impressed with the soul-killing effects of slavery, let him go to Colonel Lloyd's plantation, and, on allowance-day, place himself in the deep pine woods, and there let him, in silence, a ~ Frederick Douglass

The ten thousand states of mind that we talk about in Zen are all levels of perception. You can think of each of the ten thousand states of mind as a dimensional plane. ~ Frederick Lenz

People love misery, they love to feel sorry for themselves, and they definitely don't want to be enlightened. That's the first thing they tell you at boot camp in the higher worlds. ~ Frederick Lenz

Let's say you dissolve and become infinite light. There is this sense of being light even though the mind is not thinking it, one feels it, which indicates that one is still there - at least half of one. ~ Frederick Lenz

I have one great political idea ... That idea is an old one. It is widely and generally assented to; nevertheless, it is very generally trampled upon and disregarded. The best expression of it, I have found in the Bible. It is in substance, "Righteousness exalteth a nation; sin is a reproach to any people" [Proverbs 14:34]. This constitutes my politics - the negative and positive of my politics, and the whole of my politics ... I feel it my duty to do all in my power to infuse this idea into the public mind, that it may speedily be recognized and practiced upon by our people. ~ Frederick Douglass

And what do you think true love is? her father had asked her. 'Loving even when all hope is gone,' she had answered. ~ Kate Forsyth

When you go to a power place, if you are receptive, if you are able to quiet your thoughts and concentrate, a lot of that power can enter into you. ~ Frederick Lenz

Words. I had always loved them. I collected them, like I had collected pretty stones as a child. I liked to roll words over my tongue like a lump of molten honeycomb, savouring the sweetness, the crackle, the crunch. ~ Kate Forsyth

As Frederick Douglass said, "If there is no struggle, there is no progress. ~ Joshua Wolf Shenk

I was drawn to the arts because I sensed that I was by nature Bohemian, and yet very conservative. ~ Frederick Lenz

Today for the first time, at least in this country, you don't have to use those powers to survive. Our societal structure now provides the possibility to survive without using sexual manipulation. ~ Frederick Lenz

A teacher is there to laugh at you because you have such a high opinion of yourself that you need to be laughed at. You need to sense how small we all are. ~ Frederick Lenz

The coherent way of investigating any field is to examine its possible relatedness to other things. ~ Frederick Sommer

The siddhas are developed through the tonal, not the nagual. ~ Frederick Lenz

Gestalt Prayer
I do my thing and you do yours.
I am not in this world to live up to your expectations,
And you are not in this world to live up to mine.
You are you, and I am I,
And if by chance we find each other, then it is beautiful.
If not, it can't be helped. ~ Frederick Salomon Perls

She felt as if she had strayed into a fairy tale, as full of peril as of wonder, a place where anything could happen. ~ Kate Forsyth

I think it is very important to view life in terms of winning and losing until complete enlightenment has occurred. ~ Frederick Lenz

In mysticism we have to take all the imprinting that has occurred to us and wash it. Then we need to be re-imprinted but in a different way. Without it, we don't survive. ~ Frederick Lenz

All of the physical universes put together, stretching out endlessly, are only a fraction of the totality of reality. In other words, all of the physical universes are only part of the physical dimensional plane, and there are thousands of dimensional planes. ~ Frederick Lenz

The ultimate intelligence of all things is your essence. Your mind is the universe. Your body is all things. ~ Frederick Lenz

There is always going to be pain. There is always going to be pleasure. But what is not always going to be there is balance, happiness. That is a personal decision. ~ Frederick Lenz

I suspect that Jesus spoke many of his parables as a kind of sad and holy joke and that that may be part of why he seemed reluctant to explain them because if you have to explain a joke, you might as well save your breath. ~ Frederick Buechner

Select companions who are striving for enlightenment. They all have their imperfections, certainly, but at least their attention is moving in the right direction. ~ Frederick Lenz

The more men you make free, the more freedom is strengthened, and the more men you give an interest in the welfare and safety of the State, the greater is the security of the State. ~ Frederick Douglass

You see, I'm a believer in the rhapsodic. I like things that are happy. For no particular reason, I just like them. Most people don't seem to be like that in this particular place, in this world. You can tell by what they focus on. Read a newspaper, watch a TV show, go to a movie, look at a life. ~ Frederick Lenz

Tantric Zen is all about the practice of zazen meditation. If you meditate well, you'll be in very powerful states of mind and then it really doesn't matter what you do. ~ Frederick Lenz

When things get tough, there are two things that make life worth living: Mozart, and quantum mechanics ~ Victor Frederick Weisskopf